Atividade Parlamentar Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020

Maria da Graça Carvalho participated as a keynote speaker at the conference Launching EU's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation: The role of Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon 2020. This was organized by the Copenhagen Business School CBS together with Britta Thomsen MEP.

In 2014 the European Union will launch the 8th framework programme for research and innovation HORIZON2020 in order to secure Europe's global competitiveness and to create jobs and growth. Horizon 2020 will focus on societal challenges, industrial leadership and internationalisation. The conference at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) will focus on the role, that Social Sciences and Humanities play both in connection to Horizon2020 and in a wider context.

Representatives from the European Parliament, the European Commission, the industry, and the Danish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Higher Education took a closer look at the development of Horizon2020 and the possibilities for Social Sciences and Humanities in the new programme.  

The conference presented three panels under the following headlines: Priorities in Horizon 2020; Industrial Leadership and Interdisciplinarity; The Role of Social Science and Humanities. 

Ms Carvalho´s keynote speech was under the headline of Industrial Leadership and interdisciplinarity and how Social Sciences and Humanities could be a part of projects together with e.g. natural science and health/medical science with regard to industrial leadership.

Speakers included Morten ØSTERGAARD, Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education; Per HOLTEN-ANDERSEN, President, CBS; Prof. Teresa RIERA MADURELL, Member of the European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Rapporteur of Horizon 2020; Octavio QUINTANA TRIAS, European Commission, DG Research and Innovation; Prof. Britta THOMSEN, Member of the European Parliament , Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Peter HØNGAARD ANDERSEN, Research Director, Lundbeck; Prof. Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Chair of the EU Commissions SSH Advisory Board in FP7, Freie Universität Berlin; Prof. Alan IRWIN, Dean of Research, Copenhagen Business School; Prof. Vincent F. HENDRICKS, Professor for formal philosophy, University of Copenhagen; David BUDTZ PEDERSEN, Co-Director and Research Fellow at the Humanomics Research Centre, Aarhus University, and Strategic Adviser to the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education.